They/them pronouns

[Álmatafh-azralon]

@Furrfist-frostmourne

Singular they isnt a hard concept to grasp at all…

According to whom?

[Jalanili-moon-guard]

@Celyn-mannoroth

100% they and them are plural not a singular pronoun, end of story.

@Celyn-mannoroth

I can see that someone here whos name starts with a S is having a sense of self-worth tied to a Ilvl in a game. Or they wouldn’t care about someone else’s gear and how they got it. To be sure when someone rides by me, their ilvl has no effect on me unless its in pvp. At the same time my ilvl can not effect them. NO ONE has asked for raid’s to go away. But blizzard spends to much time on content so few do.

@Celyn-mannoroth

What ilvl someone has when they walk by doesn’t affect me.

@Celyn-mannoroth

A blue would only have 3995 achievement points and believe they play the game.

@Celyn-mannoroth

Yes it was an “option” but they was instructed to use a new or character they don’t plan on moving servers.

@Celyn-mannoroth

I bet you believe if someone doesn’t raid then they should just quit.

Keep in mind that I gave you leeway here for referring to Blizzard as a singular but calling the company “They” or “them” even though grammatically it’s a singular ‘they’ because sure, you could’ve been talking about the developers as a group. Even though that’s not how it was used in the sentence. But okay. That happened about a billion times, most people who vehemently insist that “they” can’t possibly be singular or all grammar will collapse typically do the same.

Further, in reading your posts, my guy, grammar isn’t really your strong suit. I don’t know if this is the hill you want to strap in on.

[Jalanili-moon-guard]

@Celyn-mannoroth

I should have said He, She or IT, you are right.

I mean, if you super want to stick to your guns for the principle, I guess. No matter how awkward it is. Fortunately, you don’t need to do those kinds of linguistic gymnastics, it’s completely permissible to use a singular “they” in the English language and has been since the 1300s.

@Celyn-mannoroth

I never said anything about their

If you’re talking about “someone” you’re talking about one person. The identity is uncertain, the number isn’t. Grammar!

@Celyn-mannoroth

You should know this by all my post you been stalking me on.

I wouldn’t count “clicking two things to find your posts to prove a point and then doing a ctrl+f search” as stalking, but if you want to have a gander at my post history that’s not hard either.

~https://www.google.com/search?q=jalanili+us.forums.blizzard.com~

@Celyn-mannoroth

English is not my native language

Are you sure that someone who admittedly struggles with English grammar due to not growing up a native speaker should be presenting themselves as an authority on whether or not the English language uses a singular “they”?

@Celyn-mannoroth

second I am not a " GUY"

Now, am I enough of a pill to keep calling you a dude when you’ve specified that the gender that you identify as is female for the sake of making a point? Maybe not. Tempting, though.

[Furrfist-frostmourne]

You need someone to figure out how to learn?

[Katarose-saurfang]

the so called lfrnouns are heavily chastised by these "pro"noun people, like as if these “pro” noun folks are somehow better just because of internet video game levels. These "pro"noun-ers arent even at the CEnoun level, but still act like they are the bosses of the universe

[Sabetha-turalyon (Sabetha)]

@Cennarus-aerie-peak

Your sarcasm and snarky reply aside, before the English language was bastardized, ‘they’ was used as a plural for something. It may have been used as a slang to reference someone indirectly. It wasn’t 'till the last few years or so where left-leaning oxford and others decided to ‘‘update’’ definitions to fit the leftist ideologues.

They is still used as a plural, it’s just that it’s also been able to refer to an individual. It’s been that way for around 700 years(seriously, feel free to look it up unless you also think that everything that you don’t agree with on Google is propaganda)

Yes recently people have decided that it’s now a pronoun they wish to be called, however insisting that they cannot refer to an individual is simply being factually wrong about English.

Which if people are gonna use a semantics argument on the internet, they should at the very least not be technically wrong.

[Joakimn-proudmoore]

no crap, life is a battle for survivance, only toughts live

[Duvainíl-moon-guard]

Doesn’t even call us proper names.

I’d take lackey, go for, peon. its what we are…lets not use pretty language to hide that.

Champion go hunt 10 animals for food for this camp.

hey camp commander…I outrank generals at this point. go send 2 troops to hunt. this is what I’d like to say lol.

[Finori-scarlet-crusade (Finori)]

@Beatrigill-eldrethalas

Allow us to make custom pronouns. Its only fair

Why not just rename your characters and add your pronouns to the end or the beginning. That way everyone will know and will still just call you “priest”.

[Frei-jubeithos]

@Álmatafh-azralon

It seems like trolling to me

It’s not trolling, you can choose your pronoun now.

@Álmatafh-azralon

We use “he” for cases where we look at someone and recognize a male figure

Even this statement is no longer true.

Basically english is fried, “He” and “She” doesn’t mean anything anymore.

[Patronus-coilfang]

But you are one person?

[Patronus-coilfang]

For centuries? If you are going to make bogus statements do it the right way.

They have been using this for Millenniums.

[Shinku-baelgun]

@Tiffany-ravencrest

Freedom from oppression is always progressive.

I dunno . . . I’ve seen some ‘progressive’ stuff that kinda oppressive.

[Shinku-baelgun]

@Frei-jubeithos

@Álmatafh-azralon

We use “he” for cases where we look at someone and recognize a male figure

Even this statement is no longer true.

Oh, it’s still true; it’s just that more people imagine that it’s not.

[Tiffany-ravencrest]

There is the “Progressive” party and there is the word “progressive”. The dictionary will help with that.

It’s sort of like “Republicans” being more supportive of the British Royal Family than they are of Harry and Meghan. There are the Republicans and then there are republicans.

[Quenya-shadow-council (Quenya)]

@Tomdiggity-thrall

you people

So you are essentially going from thread to thread on this subject matter and being a trolling douche,

[Tomdiggity-thrall]

stop calling me names it OFFENDS ME

[Anxxy-area-52]

it’s like low tier bait too, it’s pretty boring

[Rashiko-bleeding-hollow]

Funny how moderation on these boards is automated unless someone actually widely reviled gets flagged.

These mods, man.

[Rianan-bleeding-hollow]

@Jalanili-moon-guard

Further, in reading your posts, my guy, grammar isn’t really your strong suit. I don’t know if this is the hill you want to strap in on.

I am laughing so hard right now. Good job and thank you.